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Friday, March 8, 2013

'Anthems', Anthrax's long-awaited,
eight-track EP that pays tribute to the classic songs by some of
Anthrax's favorite bands from the 1970s, will be released in North
America on March 19 (MRI/Megaforce), and on March 22 in Europe (Nuclear
Blast). The track listing for 'Anthems'
features Rush's "Anthem," Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak," "TNT" by AC/DC,
Boston's "Smokin'," "Big Eyes" by Cheap Trick, Journey's "Keep on
Runnin," as well as the album version and a special remix of Anthrax's
"Crawl" from the band's critically-acclaimed 2011 album 'Worship Music'. Additionally, ANTHRAX will be headlining this year's Metal Alliance Tour. The band will be performing their classic 'Among The Living' in its entirety. Our friends over at Metal Assaultconducted an interview with Charlie Benante about 'Anthems' and about Metal Alliance 2013! A few excerpts of the interview follow:What are you up to these days, man? Just doing press for the tour?Yeah, pretty much. And I’m also doing some artwork for t-shirts and stuff like that too.That’s cool. So, you have this Metal Alliance Tour coming up which should be awesome, looking at that lineup.

Oh yeah. For me, going out and playing this Among The Living record,
which is one of our biggest records, playing that in its entirety is a
little bit of a challenge but we’re going to do it!

Usually you’ve been playing at least three songs off of that
album in your set anyway, but this time you’re playing the whole thing.
How much of a challenge is it actually, and how much did you have to
prepare to play these songs?

I’ve been actually preparing for it, because one of the songs we
haven’t really played it live. So you have to relearn how to play it and
see what type of approach you’re going to put on the song too, because
it’s a very, very fast song. So, I have to kind of pace myself, and it’s
a challenge but I’m sure I’ll pull it off.

You’re going to play club venues across North America, which I
think is perfect for Anthrax even though you play bigger venues when
opening for other bands. The vibe is that much better.

I guess we just want to go and sell these places out, and basically
see how that goes. Honestly, I don’t care where we play (laughs).

Coming
to this new release of yours which is coming out in a couple of weeks,
the ‘Anthems’ EP which has six covers, the Worship Music track ‘Crawl’
and its remix version too. How did that come about? I think a few
members of Anthrax have been talking about it for a few months, so is it
something that’s been in the works for a while?

What happened was, we would always record B-sides and stuff, and we
had a bunch of them that were recorded musically but we didn’t really
finish them. Then we were talking, and I said we should really do
something with these and may be do a bit more. So I mentioned Rush, and
‘Anthem’ was the song that came out. Then we were talking about more
songs and the Journey song came out. So I said I’m going to record
these, do the drums and everything, and then I’ll put a scratch guitar
part on it and send it. So I sent it to Scott and then Frankie got it
and Joey got it, and then we just finished all the stuff that way. We
were so happy with the way it was turing out that I was like, ‘Wow, I
bet our fans would really like to hear this!’ And that’s how it
happened. But we wanted to keep it as an EP and not a full record
because we wanted to have it priced very well, you know? I mean,
originally I jokingly said let’s charge $6.66, but iTunes wouldn’t do
it.

As previously reported HERE,
after a long and successful run as guitarist for the legendary Thrash
Metal
act Anthrax, Rob Caggiano has decided that it's time to move on and
focus on his other passion: producing records for the time being.

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